I poured my heart into worship ministries at church because I love helping people to connect Sunday worship with personal, daily worship. I served on committees and as a chaplain for choir and orchestra; I wrote weekly prayers for the worship folder and daily prayer prompters for each day's Bible reading; I worked with our worship pastor to plan services. Then he resigned.

When the search committee was formed to find his replacement, I was not asked to be on it, and I let it be known that I felt used and unappreciated. I tried to argue myself out of my bad attitude, but with little success. Then, while working on the next week's worship folder, I was stopped in my tracks by words I had written a year earlier. As I typed the prayer prompter to go with 1 Chronicles 25-29, which includes the account of David's unfulfilled desire to build the temple, my own words convicted me: "Pray that we will not be resentful when God gives to someone else the task we were hoping to do."

I immediately called the chairman of the search committee to confess my bad attitude and to promise that I would support him in the difficult task ahead. And I continue to do that because the work belongs to God, not to me!  —JAL  — Julie Ackerman Link